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Thursday, May 01, 2025

Lisa's holiday adventures

Lisa and Nikki	Well I had a very busy time holidaying in the South Island, mainly in Greymouth and Christchurch catching up with friends and family and ofcourse my bodybuilding friends too. Niki Taylor (NZFBB Bodyfitness champ 07) came out to wile away a couple of hours with me at the airport. Thanks Niki.	Sunny day over snowy alps
I was feeling queezy from my flight from Auckland. The last 5mins were very bumpy due to the westerly blowing in. I'm not a great traveller sometimes and I hate landings so the 2 didn't mix. Anyway, Niki took my mind off my stomach and we chatted about bodybuliding...ofcourse! Niki's coming over to the Gold Coast to do the ANB and WNBF comps at end of May with the team. She hasn't decided if she's doing the Sportsmodel or figure class yet. Niki's been dieting a couple of weeks and weight's just dropping off her, lucky thing. She didn't quite manage to convince me to compete. Others already have tried, eh Ali, but just biding my time and enjoying my rest and growth. So after coffee it was into a little 12 seater paper plane to Greymouth aka the flight from hell...or to hell. That westerly didn't stop blowing and just as we were about to cross to the other side of the alps the plane started shaking, then rollercoastered abit, then it dipped into a 'hole'! I was not in great shape and felt all my breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea wanting to come back up again. The sickbag was firmly in my hands and without going into too graphic details, the bag was full by the time I landed in Hokitika. It took me a day to get my land legs back. Luckily I had a smoother flight back on a gorgeous day where I could see the snow on the alps. See pic above right.

	Above: Lynette and Karyn Left: Lisa with Linda Harrington	Above: Greymouth beach at sunrise with southern alps in background
Although it was my rest week I had to do something, so popped into the local Fat Max's Gym for my gym fix. Just did abit of cardio and mucked around with light leg training. Linda Harrington is PT there, Linda won the 2004 NZFBB National Figure Champ. She has 3 children with the most recent being a 4 month old! She hopes to get back into shape but not sure about competing at this stage. I also caught up with Karyn Kelly and Lynette Skeats at Fat Max's, they both compete in NABBA and NZFBB comps. I videoed their leg training session, laughing session more like!, so will have that video online in the next couple of weeks.
	Punakiki Pancake Rocks	Then ofcourse there's the family road trip to Punakikie 40mins north of Greymouth. 4 adults and 3 kids in a mini van, a fun day indeed! Actually it wasn't too bad. The weather was beautiful and the tide was high which meant the pancake rocks were really blowing and the kids loved it. We also stopped by 12mile on the way home to check out the rockpools filled with starfish.
		12 mile

Lisa with Richard, Annette and Mark	Richard and Annette train arms	Southern Muscles Training I know you guys love seeing muscle so enough of my holiday snaps! It was Easter Friday afternoon in Christchurch and had nothing else to do so thought I'd pop into Les Mills. They had relocated to another building so thought I'd see what it was like.
Might do some cardio but low and behold there was Richard Parnham and Annette Gallagher training arms so I thought ' hmm happy snapping would be much more fun than training' so took out my camera and snapped away. Here is the video of them training. Then after they had finished, Mark Anderson and Kingsley Hannah dropped by. So on a day that I thought nothing would happen. It all happened at Les Mills, go figure! I followed them round with my camera snapping and videoing away.
	Mark Anderson and Kingsley training chest
On Saturday morning before the NABBA Asia Pacific Champs I caught up with IFBB Pro Mike Debenham training back. He's already in good condition eventhough he was 17 weeks from his contest. Mike already looks quite lean and vascular. He had some great things to say on video about his training, diet and his step up in motivation since turning pro here.
Lisa and Mike
Lisa, Go Figure 14 April 09